You Know You're in Grad School When...

[sechan19]

...your mother, who has been a professional writer and editor for over twenty years and who always gives your term papers a once-over to make sure you haven't written anything too bone-headed, reports that for the first time in the history of this process she had to look up a word you wrote in the dictionary.

This semester's door prize goes to: reify - to convert into or regard as a concrete thing; to regard or treat (an abstraction) as if it had concrete or material existence. From Dictionary.com.

Clearly I am playing with the big boys now. Heh.

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Clearly I am playing with the big boys now. Heh.

If that's running in parallel with the theme of your previous meme, congratulations! (Else, good luck.) ;-)